[mapguide-users] Good Development Environment for MGOS

[Robert Bray]

In the last three years I have also become an immense fan of PHP. Before 
we started the MapGuide Open Source / Enterprise project I had never 
written a line of PHP code. Now it is the first language I use for 
testing / experimenting with MapGuide stuff. Why? Because it is just 
plain easy to write, debug, test, and deploy just about any kind of web 
application in PHP.

FYI - Tim Bray (no relation) of Sun Microsystems gave a very 
controversial presentation on PHP last fall. A summary can be found at 
the link below with tons and tons of interesting follow-up.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=43020

While it is all very interesting, you wont find a silver bullet answer 
to your question in there. The bottom line is that MapGuide supports all 
three environments pretty well and unless you are out to learn something 
new, you should probably pick the one you are currently the most 
comfortable with.

Bob

Bruce Dechant wrote:
> Before I started working on MGOS I didn't know PHP. Now that I have been
> working on MGOS I really like PHP. I also like it because it works on
> either Windows or Linux.
> 
> C# is really nice but will limit you to the Windows platform.
> 
> Hopefully, someone else will comment about their Java experience.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dhirendra
> Kumar
> Sent: March 6, 2007 10:25 PM
> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Good Development Environment for MGOS
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new in MapGuide Application Development and i want to know for
> Developing Application in MGOS which language will be good and provide
> better flexibility  C#, PHP or Java/J2EE. I developed 3-4 another
> Application in java/j2EE then this experience will help me in devloping
> MGOS
> Application. Please help me.
> 
> Thankyou in Advance
> 
> Dhirendra kumar